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Semantic Scholar is a free academic search tool useful for AI safety researchers tracking literature; not specific to AI safety but widely used in the field for literature discovery and citation analysis.

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Summary

Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered scientific literature search and discovery platform covering over 214 million papers. It offers features like AI-generated TLDRs, influential citation detection, personalized research feeds, and library management tools to help researchers find and organize relevant work.

Key Points

  • Indexes 214+ million papers across all scientific fields with filters for journals, authors, publication type, and date range
  • TLDRs provide AI-generated ultra-short summaries for ~60 million papers in CS, biology, and medicine
  • Highly Influential Citations feature uses ML to identify papers with significant impact on citing works
  • Library tools allow organizing papers into folders, bulk citation export, and sharing with collaborators
  • AI-powered Research Feeds generate personalized paper recommendations based on saved library folders

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 Our Product

 Experience a Smarter Way to Search and Discover Research

 Scholars like you make impactful, groundbreaking research work every single day around the world. We are here to support you by providing a better way to search and discover scientific knowledge.

 Search

 Find Relevant Research

 Search over 214 million papers from all fields of science, with filters such as journals and conferences, authors, publication types, and date range.

 Scan Papers Faster with TLDRs

 Identifying the right papers for you can be time-consuming. To save some time, look for TLDRs (Too Long; Didn't Read) on search results pages.

 ‍ TLDRs are super-short summaries of the main objective and results of a paper, generated using expert background knowledge and NLP techniques, available for nearly 60 million papers in computer science, biology, and medicine.

 Check Highly Influential Citations

 Too many citations to wade through? Start with the Highly Influential Citations where the cited publication has a significant impact on the citing publication, determined by a machine-learning model that analyzes factors including the number of citations to a publication and the surrounding context for each.

 Search Now Cite

 Cite Any Paper

 Any paper you find relevant for your research, select "Cite" on a paper page or in the search results. 

 A pop-up will offer you the option of multiple citation formats including BibTex, MLA, APA, or Chicago.

 Library

 Manage Your Papers in One Place

 Store and organize all the papers that interest you in your online library and access them anywhere, anytime when you sign in to Semantic Scholar. 

 With your library, you can organize papers into customized folders and bulk export citations. You can also create public folders and easily share them with collaborators, who can copy the folder to their own library in one click.

 After creating a folder, you can also create AI-powered Research Feeds that automatically generate paper recommendations for you. Simply toggle the Research Feed to ‘On’ for each folder and you will start receiving regular recommendations from the next day.

 Pro Tip: Place similar papers into one folder to generate better and more relevant recommendations.

 Visit Library Research Feeds

 Personalized AI-Powered Paper Recommendations

 After you add papers to your library, your Research Feeds will quickly learn what papers interest you and recommend the latest research to help you stay up-to-date.

 You can turn on Research Feeds recommendations for any folder in your library and have them sent right to your email. To learn more about how Research Feeds work, visit our FAQ .

 Tips to Get Better Recommendations

 Ratings are essential to teach Semantic Scholar’s AI what is or isn't relevant to you. The more ratings you submit, the more relevant your recommended papers will be.

 Add 5 relevant papers to a library folder. Semantic Scholar will show you 

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